Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million ad campaign by the tobacco industry left its mark on those voters who were paying attention; just as the health-insurance industry recast Clinton's health-care initiative four years ago as a bureaucratic monster, the tobacco industry successfully reframed the legislation as a Big Government, big-spending, tax-hiking mess. But that effort alone could not have worked if a lot of politicians had not sat down and done the math and found that the poll numbers did not add up the way they had long expected. In the months leading up to the midterm elections, when only...
...moment Lott started the meeting, it became apparent to McCain that it had been called in order to choose a procedure for killing his bill. But McCain gave it one last try. "This has become a Republican bill!" McCain argued. "Are we going to say no to a tax cut and no to funding for the drug war? Are we going to say no to the two highest priorities in the Republican Congress?" The answer was still yes. "We're pulling it down, John," Lott told a deflated McCain...
...campaign-finance reform and U.N. dues. A tobacco deal was supposed to show that Clinton was still in the game, while also funding programs for child care and education that he had laid out in January. That's why Clinton had been so willing to compromise on everything from tax cuts to liability limits...
...just Republicans who have declared themselves in no mood to deal. Democrats on the Hill, who had acceded to Bowles' pleas to accept things they hated, like the marriage-penalty tax cut, found themselves burned when the Republicans walked out anyway. Their only hope for regaining their majority in November--and it's a slim one--is in getting voters riled against a Republican majority that happens to be enjoying some of its highest approval ratings ever. Democrats are relishing the prospect of labeling the Republicans in November as captives of Big Tobacco and a do-nothing bunch of laggards...
Ingram left with $1000, a return ticket and aguarantee of later funds from the AustralianCouncil of Churches. This promise would grow intothe Black Woman's Action in Education Foundation,which now accepts tax deductible donations inAustralia...